FARMING AND FOXHUNTING 



with the blue sea beyond. Such a picture puts you 

 into a dream, and you wonder for one short moment 

 whether Hfe as an artist would not be preferable to 

 the strenuous life of a farmer. 



But that vision quickly passes when you begin 

 to work out the method of the Scotsman's cropping, 

 which seems to be potatoes, wheat, swedes, oats 

 and then temporary pasture. Are not some of us 

 thinking of temporary pasture without roots ? The 

 Scotsman seems to have both and we must too. 

 It is no good getting too lazy, following the line of 

 least resistance. 



I made some enquiries about grass-drying plants 

 and was told that there was only one in Scotland. 

 One would have thought that here was God's own 

 country particularly adapted for grass drying. Ah, 

 the Scot is a canny fellow, and he is waiting for 

 information from the south. 



Some of you may begin to wonder why I have been 

 wandering about Scotland at this time of the year 

 when one should be home gathering the crops, 

 others will know that in that country the great sheep 

 sales are fairly frequent during August and Septem- 

 ber, and my primary object of going north was to 

 buy sheep. 



There seems no doubt that the Half Bred lamb is 

 the one that comes south in the greatest numbers, 

 being perhaps the most suitable for a general pur- 

 pose ; where the keep is of mixed character and not 

 too poor in quality, he certainly is the best. The 

 Scotsman says that if you want them to live on air, 

 of course you must have the Cheviot or the Scotch 



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